Archives for the 'punishment' Category
From The State That Brought You Willie Horton
Published on 15 Oct 2009 at 8:22 am.
8 Comments.
Filed under Boston, crime, moronocy, punishment.
Massachusetts inmates to get swine flu vaccine before law-abiding taxpayers. Boston Herald:
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Low
Published on 28 Sep 2009 at 9:32 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under crime, food, law & order, punishment.
A Worcester, Massachusetts, man will do 18 months for taking another man’s hot dog at gunpoint, and eating it. Worcester Telegram:
My Death Row Valentine
Published on 13 Feb 2009 at 9:30 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under crime, punishment.
Spree killer Gary Sampson wants one. Disturbing weirdness alert. Boston Herald:
Crazy Loser Prizefight
Published on 14 Jan 2009 at 8:12 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under crime, men, punishment, women.
It’s one of those stories that put a little smile on your face when you open the paper in the morning. Accident-faking ex-Congressional wannabe and unhinged fake Clinton bomber duke it out over a hoosegow honey in their New Hampshire lockup. via Boston Herald:
Righteous Noise Facilitation
Published on 30 Dec 2008 at 11:00 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under Guantanamo, hated Crusaders, punishment, song.
If you’re interested in that kind of thing. Discussion of iPod listening options and hearing-loss issues starts with the Boston Herald’s recommendation of the Stillwater iKick iK500 as the booming best of the iPod speakers at $250:
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Village Justice
Published on 17 Oct 2008 at 7:10 pm.
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Filed under crime, india, punishment.
It’s harsh. Sickle-wielding Indian woman beheads alleged stalker, parades through village with severed head. Daily Mail:
Good Money After Bad
Published on 8 Oct 2008 at 11:40 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under crime, history, punishment.
Another $37.5 billion for AIG. You know, the relaxed, if troubled insurance giant. via Fox.
“Closure For America”
Published on 5 Oct 2008 at 9:56 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under crime, punishment.
Goldman lawyer calls it. Meanwhile, the Boston Herald’s own O.J. gets Simpson Dream Teamer Alan Dershowitz. He doesn’t want to talk about it. O.J. is so 1995:
Slow Grind
Published on 4 Oct 2008 at 11:32 pm.
1 Comment.
Filed under crime, justice, punishment.
But a fine grind of justice as O.J. Simpson is found guilty on all counts. NYT suggests a lack of caring:
Busted in NYC
Published on 18 Sep 2008 at 8:52 pm.
2 Comments.
Filed under art, crime, punishment.
Dutch “graffiti tourist” gets primo tour, accommodations after cops chase him up the subway tracks and bust him. Robbert Boxem, 23, charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, was in town for the big Meeting of Styles. If he doesn’t get any of the four years time he’s looking at, then he gets to go [...]
Cut The Cheese
Published on 21 Aug 2008 at 7:25 am.
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Filed under Boston, crime, punishment.
The Cheeseman must diet. The reputed Boston mobster/fromagier has been given doctor’s orders he can’t refuse: Lose the gouda or else. It’s like he woke up with a hogshead in the bed next to him. Boston Herald, “Live and Let Diet.”
Kai Leigh’s Blessing
Published on 26 Apr 2008 at 10:47 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under crime, punishment.
Here’s a guy who got the message the hard way. At someone else’s expense. Boston Herald on a thug’s remorse:
God bless you, Mr. Brounwater
Published on 24 Apr 2008 at 8:08 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under BS, Bums, Jihad, Nazis, Neanderthals, Taliban, al qaeda, anthronerdism, boobs, dummkopf!, hated Crusaders, human organs, incompetence, law & order, military, mockery, moronocy, nerds, nude, opportunity, pervs, porn, punishment, sex, transsexuals, western civilization.
Representative Paul Broun, R-Ga, wants to define nudity and ban government employees (specifically, military members) from spending their money on it. His Bill has 16 co-sponsors.
Up in heaven, Kurt Vonnegut laughs.
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Serial Subway Groper
Published on 14 Apr 2008 at 10:02 pm.
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Filed under crime, pervs, punishment.
Looking at life. That’s what NYC prosecutors want for Freddie Johnson, busted 53 times, most of those reportedly grope-related.
In other perv-related news, Dr. Helen has this on the criminalization of visual sexual aggression. Sounds like a useful and well-intentioned law on its face, though as Helen notes, it sounds like it has a lot of potential [...]
My New Favorite Judge
Published on 27 Mar 2008 at 11:09 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under English, crime, justice, opportunity, punishment.
Meet Peter Olszewski:
The Killers Club
Published on 13 Mar 2008 at 10:27 am.
2 Comments.
Filed under crime, punishment.
Boston Herald:
A bloody fraternity of the state’s most monstrous killer cons are plotting their releases from prison as part of a Department of Correction-sanctioned club whose aim is to shorten its members’ lengthy sentences.
Third Time’s More Harm
Published on 1 Mar 2008 at 9:10 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under crime, pervs, punishment.
Perv-friendly judge freed another encore rapist. Boston Herald:
1 in 100
Published on 28 Feb 2008 at 8:24 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under America, crime, punishment.
Locked up in the United States. We’re tops. NYT:
She Can’t Testify …
Published on 28 Feb 2008 at 9:26 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under crime, medicine, punishment.
Because of the brain damage he’s accused of inflicting. That’s the stepfather’s legal argument in the Haleigh Poutre beating case. Boston Herald:
Dude Not Like a Lady
Published on 26 Feb 2008 at 9:27 pm.
14 Comments.
Filed under crime, men, punishment, women.
And looking less like one everyday, according to his complaint.
Re Judges, Pervs
Published on 23 Feb 2008 at 6:41 am.
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Filed under crime, punishment.
Massachusetts judge overruled on letting accused perv slide. Guess who. Boston Herald.
Massachusetts Perv Update
Published on 22 Feb 2008 at 10:23 am.
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Filed under crime, law & order, punishment.
Sex deviant’s long rap sheet didn’t faze judge. Boston Herald:
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Not A Real Terrorist
Published on 22 Jan 2008 at 9:25 pm.
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Filed under al qaeda, crime, moronocy, punishment.
And they were mean to him, says the judge. So Marcia Cook splits the baby, gives Padilla 17 years instead of the 30-to-life called for by federal sentencing guidelines.
Perhaps Your Attitude Will Improve … On The Russian Front!
Published on 18 Jan 2008 at 8:28 am.
1 Comment.
Filed under Europe, Russia, crime, punishment.
A new generation of Germans experiments with a traditional motivator.
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Mass Judge
Published on 5 Dec 2007 at 8:33 am.
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Filed under crime, punishment.
Spoonfeeds upper-class justice to North Shore equestrian. No rubbing shoulders with the masses for millionaire John J. Donovan, who shot himself in the gut, claiming thugs hired by his estranged son did it amid their $$$ dispute, sending cops on a wild goose chase. He’s sentenced to rake leaves on his own fox-hunting trails. Boston Herald:
Romney’s Horton Problem
Published on 23 Nov 2007 at 9:23 am.
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Filed under crime, pols, punishment.
Boston Herald coverage:
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Mitt Hit
Published on 22 Nov 2007 at 8:13 am.
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Filed under crime, pols, punishment.
Mass killer freed by Romney judge threatened to take out Romney. Romney stands by judge pick, calls Tavares a poster boy for death penalty. Herald:
Mass Stupidity
Published on 21 Nov 2007 at 10:30 am.
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Filed under crime, punishment.
“It’s because of stupidity in Massachusetts that my daughter is dead.” Grieving father Darrel Slater re violent ex-con Daniel Tavares and Judge Kathe Tuttman:
Fake Crime, Real Time
Published on 22 Sep 2007 at 8:15 am.
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Filed under crime, punishment.
If you wanna to do the fake crime, you gotta be ready to do the real time. Jesse MacBeth got his wish. He’s a war criminal now.
Gene Conspiracy Victim?
Published on 16 Sep 2007 at 8:43 am.
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Filed under crime, pols, punishment.
Sounds like Hsu was just lonely. He wanted to be part of things, be admired. They may want to include Hsu in that loneliness gene conspiracy immune disorder study. Because … I don’t mean to be cruel … but that guy doesn’t look good. Got a kind of lonely, immune-disordered look. But let’s consider the evidence.
NYT: Troubled Fundraiser’s [...]
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Thriller Near Manilla
Published on 11 Aug 2007 at 9:16 am.
7 Comments.
Filed under asia, crime, punishment.
It’s fun to stay at the Cebu Provincial Detention Center and Rehabilitation Center:
“Thriller”
“In The Navy” and “YMCA”
Here’s what that’s about:
Crime and Punishment
Published on 29 Jul 2007 at 9:45 am.
48 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, crime, punishment.
Crime. And punishment.
Quick news quiz, essay question. What exactly is crime? What is punishment? Highly subjective matters, even though matters of law:
Wounded Heel
Published on 25 Jul 2007 at 7:21 am.
13 Comments.
Filed under academia, punishment, shameless self-promotion.
The best part about this is that he’ll be back. The best part after the firing, that is. The best part after the firing and the drums, that is. I like the drums.
Ward Churchill canned for plagiarism, making up history, may not teach at University of Colorado for as long as the grass grows, the buffalo roam [...]
Lapse in Judgment
Published on 13 Jul 2007 at 8:23 am.
6 Comments.
Filed under crime, punishment.
Just the latest in the sordid case of a 17-year-old boy given 10 years for oral sex with a 15-year-old girl. DA cites public records law as he hands out copies of a teen sex tape. But he also thinks it bolsters his position in the highly controversial case:
Judge Not
Published on 11 Jul 2007 at 12:14 pm.
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Filed under crime, punishment.
The judge who sued the Boston Herald, reporter David Wedge, myself and others for libel and was granted a $2.1 million judgment by other judges,* is now charged with “conduct unbecoming” and “willful misconduct” by the Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct.
No Time in Non-Crime
Published on 3 Jul 2007 at 7:24 am.
11 Comments.
Filed under law & order, punishment.
Scooter skates. Well, not exactly. There’s $250,000 that won’t be going into any GOP campaigns, and Scooter gets to be a felon. Pretty rough when no one actually did anything wrong. The left has had to make do with half-truths and fabrications in its quest to find some Bush malfeasance over the years, and this commutation is only a [...]
Crime and Punishment
Published on 14 Jun 2007 at 1:48 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under crime, punishment.
Turns out Paris Hilton is getting special treatment:
Imaginative Justice
Published on 13 Jun 2007 at 11:55 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under crime, punishment.
Obama general counsel Robert F. Bauer at HuffPo makes the “Progressive Case for a Libby Pardon.” His argument is that this will finally make Bush complicit in the vast rightwing conspiracy that assisted Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame in making themselves look foolish and blow her cover.
OK, he doesn’t exactly argue it that way. I [...]
The Pious Life
Published on 11 Jun 2007 at 11:26 am.
5 Comments.
Filed under celeb, crime, punishment, shameless self-promotion.
Paris calls Barbara from jail. Like so many crims, Paris has had a religious awakening behind bars:
Death vs. Murder
Published on 11 Jun 2007 at 9:28 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under crime, law & order, punishment.
Studies say the death penalty, expeditiously applied, not only prevents murders but deters them.
